That is another meaningless nothingburger, that may have started as a paraphrase of Bill Clinton, in his sophistry driven existential analysis of:

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the meaning of the word 'is' is.

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"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the--if he--if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not--that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement....Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true."

My ears lit up the other night when I heard some talking head comment that a certain statement was not just hyperbowl!

Beware of the Serial Comma! I saw this that fits with the original intent of Spag's/Spags' thread.

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If there were a comma after “shipment,” it might have been clear that the law exempted the distribution of perishable foods. But the appeals court on Monday sided with the drivers, saying the absence of a comma produced enough uncertainty to rule in their favor. It reversed a lower court decision.

In other words: Oxford comma defenders won this round.

“That comma would have sunk our ship,” David G. Webbert, a lawyer who represented the drivers, said in an interview on Wednesday.

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What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry

Tat

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A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.

What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.

In 2014, three truck drivers sued Oakhurst Dairy, seeking more than four years’ worth of overtime pay that they had been denied. Maine law requires workers to be paid 1.5 times their normal rate for each hour worked after 40 hours, but it carves out some exemptions.

A quick punctuation lesson before we proceed: In a list of three or more items — like “beans, potatoes and rice” — some people would put a comma after potatoes, and some would leave it out. A lot of people feel very, very strongly about it.

The debate over commas is often a pretty inconsequential one, but it was anything but for the truck drivers. Note the lack of Oxford comma — also known as the serial comma — in the following state law, which says overtime rules do not apply to:

Does the law intend to exempt the distribution of the three categories that follow, or does it mean to exempt packing for the shipping or distribution of them?

Delivery drivers distribute perishable foods, but they don’t pack the boxes themselves. Whether the drivers were subject to a law that had denied them thousands of dollars a year depended entirely on how the sentence was read.

If there were a comma after “shipment,” it might have been clear that the law exempted the distribution of perishable foods. But the appeals court on Monday sided with the drivers, saying the absence of a comma produced enough uncertainty to rule in their favor. It reversed a lower court decision.

In other words: Oxford comma defenders won this round.

“That comma would have sunk our ship,” David G. Webbert, a lawyer who represented the drivers, said in an interview on Wednesday.

What can I say, all diplomatic approaches have already failed. No more talking! Overkill is underrated. Tat for Tit! I have a non-discrimination policy!

Perhaps a bit of diplomacy via Post is in order?

Diplomacy? Releasing a seemingly innocuous ditty on an innocent civilian, that is in effect a Trojan horse, similar to Stuxnet, that embeds itself into a unsuspecting victim, with an acknowledged and crippling susceptibility to diabolical earworms. Not diplomacy, but psychological warfare.A Major psy-op.

Luckily I have discovered an antidote, which may be purchased, for an exorbitant price, at my website. Toxins and earworms bind to receptors in the brain, and toxicologists develop antagonists/antidotes by using substances with higher affinity to the receptors than the offending toxin or infectious ditty.

For me, that antidote is usually music for which I have higher affinity receptors, and the antidote is easily tailored with increased specificity to particular individuals, once you know their weaknesses/susceptibilities, through exhaustive research. I hesitat to reveal my particular affinity, for fear of retalitation, but here is a non-specific example, harmless to the average person. I do this reluctantly as I think there is already too much violinse in the world.

The Rondo/finale comes across with a soothing ,yet catchy, theme that lulls one into a false sense of security, only to be undone by a vicious Ottoman invasion midway with a revolution, that Mozart eventually suppresses by displacement by the original antidote theme.

It has been said the Music soothes the savage beast, so I hope this soothes the savage beast, that shall remain un-named! It is fortunatly a misquote of :"Music soothes the savage breast", bringing us back, once again, to tit!

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“Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.” The actual quote, is “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast.” The next line, elaborating on the theme, is “To soften Rocks, or bend over a knotted Oak log.”

He certainly has a unique stage presence, reminiscent of the flehman reaction seen in many animals used to sense pheromoans by their Jacobson Organs.

It looks like he is sensing the quality of his tone in his resonant gaping naso-pharynx.

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Speaking of violins and doubletalk...

This is beyond catchy!It is clearly in the top ten of ultimate infectious works.All I had to do was crank it up, and kids would immediately appear dancing a frenzied tarantella.

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As we appear to be at a standoff with matching "skills",it may have to be settled by duet. The Violin concerto and the below flik shows that appearance does not necessarily correlate with virtuosity. I get to chose the "weapon", I pick the resonator/guitar, and you can have the other instrument and pick the time and place.